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Giovanni POV: ***InterrogationI just wanted a peaceful evening, it had made my day when she came to the office. I knew she’d get bored staying in the house all day, there was only so much to do there. Work was stressful enough trying to get everyone who came to me the protection they needed, all without giving up any ground for Domenico to take back parts of the city. I was playing chess with a mastermind who didn’t like a rulebook, I only felt at peace around her. Even today just knowing she was in the same building as me I felt better and more assured. It didn’t matter though, we had a chasm of complication between us that neither was willing to jump across. She didn’t want to give her father any more reason to target me and I didn’t want to drag her further into this mess. I hadn’t expected her father to do so, but he appeared desperate. I felt horrible, there was a slimy part of myself that was proud of this I had gotten him cornered enough that he had dragged his other daught
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Arianna POV: I had waited up to apologize a little for riling him up and hopefully get an apology from him as well. I was in the Den when he walked in at first it looked like it had been raining but then when I stepped closer I saw the blood splatter on his face. A flurry of emotions went through me I was so scared he had gotten hurt, but then my eyes roamed over him he was fine. The blood wasn’t his, I had stepped back. I don’t know where he had been or what he had seen but he didn’t register me until I was frozen in shock. He stared at me so hard not speaking, not moving. The men moved away from us as we waited for the other to talk, not wanting to break the silence not wanting it to continue. I felt ages pass as we sat there. Finally, he shook his head in defeat and crinkled his nose. “Well this isn’t how I wanted to do this but when do I ever get what I want,”. He gestured to his bloodied self. “This is who I am now, I come home in the middle of the night with someone else’s b
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Giovanni POV: I had fallen asleep thinking for most of the night that it was a dream, the most pleasant dream I’d ever had. After a day of driving around the city searching all over for her, trying to figure out where she would go. I had run myself ragged trying to find her, killing myself for being so cold towards her and keeping her under lock and key. I just didn’t think she’d stay away from the office, and if she went out she might feel scorned enough to seek out her sister. I didn’t think she’d go to her father but I did know he was conniving enough to find her quickly. I had come home and Luca poured me a drink telling me that she would be alright, he felt responsible for not realizing something was wrong sooner. We drowned our concerns and rank away most of my good whiskey, I had stumbled up the stairs to my bed at some point and I could have sworn she had been waiting for me. As I had woken up I remembered the wave of relief, but it was soured by the drunken sleep fog that c
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Arianna POV: “What were you doing that night?” I started. It wouldn’t be comfortable, but I wanted to know what he was doing. He insisted he was just as bad as my father but everything I had seen so far was to the contrary. “I was getting information out of a man we had captured. He was one of the ones who’d gone to your house,” He responded quickly I saw in his face the blankness of defeat to tell the truth. I felt like I was prying, but at the same time, I felt entitled to know. I swallowed, “Did you get information from him?” “Yes,” “How,” “I stabbed him and popped his shoulder out its socket. He’d been beaten all day,” He told me I saw the twitch in his jaw and how he didn’t look me in the eyes. “What did he tell you?” “Where a shipment of heroin was,” He explained “Where is it going?’ “I’ve tipped off the feds,” I smiled a bit, he clenched his fist. “I'm not going to apologize for smiling when you did a good thing,” He leaned back in his chair rolling his eyes. “A goo
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Arianna POV: I woke up the next morning excited to have the weekend to prepare for my new job. It was exciting until I remembered my hastily packed wardrobe and how I hadn’t figured to pack any work clothes. I got up inspecting my clothes and sure enough, there wasn’t anything I would wear to the office insight. My panic had made me pack the most random things from sweaters to swimsuits, to my penguin slippers. I jumped down the stairs, deciding to bother Luca when I saw him, not really thinking after the last week I’d see Gio in the kitchen but there he was Luca lounging at the table scrolling on his phone. “Oh! Morning,” I greeted them, Gio was making pancakes and I walked past him smiling, ignoring the slight blush on my cheeks. “Good morning,” Gio gave me a bright smile. “Morning,” Luca looked between us, taking a sip of his coffee. “Luca, I need clothes for the office can I go shopping today or tomorrow?” I asked him. He nodded to me as he scrolled and I smiled getting up
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Giovanni POV: It was one thing to be haunting Arianna, it was another to barge in on our day out. I was quite enjoying the game we were playing, the fact that her hand was on my arm. I was looking forward to a meal where she would no doubt ask Luca every question under the sun and ignore me. Instead her overly bubbly and highly poisonous sister had to interrupt. She had insisted on joining us and if she wanted to ruin this moment I’d let her. Guilia thought she was far smarter than she really was. If she wanted to attempt to play us that was fine I typically got something out of it. Besides, I wanted to see how Arianna fared against her sister. So far she was the coldest I had seen her, I found myself quite proud of her strength. I know she had been affected by the realization that her sister was part of the plot. We sat down and I crossed my arms as her sister rattled off a list of what she wanted, how she wanted it, and when she wanted it served. The waiter looked at her puzzle
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Arianna POV: I had woken up that evening with a pounding headache and little to no memory of what had been said, I remember her attempting to call me a bitch, and Giovanni escorting her out and after that was all a blur. I had asked him how much sake I had decided to drink and he told me it was more than he would have attempted but he could tell I needed the edge off. Still, I felt highly embarrassed as to what I had done or said, all I knew was when I was having such a wonderful day with him, I was so happy, and seeing her ruined it. Her face flashed into my mind, the anger in her eyes, it was a deep dark coldness that ran through her. The wonderful sibling relationship I thought I had salvaged and recovered seemed to be another stupid and hopeful wish. The next day I stayed in bed still feeling a little rough, more my heart than my head. Gio had to go out and do something, so when we got up this morning for work it was the first I had seen him. He looked exhausted and I poured
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Arianna POV: Gio didn’t return to the office until later than he said, only to pick me up on our way home. He looked better than he had that morning, but if he thought I didn’t notice the new bandage on his hand he was wrong. “There you are,” I exclaimed as he entered my office as I was cleaning up for the day. He sighed in a content way, almost like a relief. I stood up and walked over to him resting my hands on his chest. “You look like you’ve had a long day,” His hands went to my waist holding me softly. His eyes filled with a tenderness as he nodded in agreement. I grabbed my coat and some documents along with the box of fabric handing that off to Luca and thanking him. Gio quirked an eyebrow in question and turned to him with a wicked grin. “My sister has been tarnishing the family name, I’ve decided to provide her with a lesson,” I explained. “Oh! And this is Peanut,” I clapped my leg and the St. Bernard puppy hobbled over. The pet stores had only small teacup dogs that di
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Arianna POV: “We need to use this now!” Mosley insisted. “He has more chance to get out of this if he knows it’s coming,” “No, I don’t want to move until Blake checks back in. If she’s out there or god forbid is captured, she’s in danger if we move,” I insisted, Gio rubbed my back as I stood my ground. Even though we had found the file, Blake was determined to find the new account. She was worried the past charge was too easy for him to wriggle out of. She wanted more, so she had gone out to find it tracking him just like she had before. It had been three days since she was supposed to check in and there was radio silence on her end. My father didn’t like getting caught twice, if he knew who Blake was from before I had no doubt he had gotten information on her. He may know how she operates and have people watching for her, he may have realized we reached out to her. It wasn’t that I didn’t believe Blake could survive him, it was that I knew the resentment my father felt for her.
Into the darkness Chapter 58
Arianna POV: The whirlwind that was Ryan Blake had flung into our lives and decidedly flung out rather quickly, I honestly hadn’t expected her to turn up again for months at the latest but after running out of the house the night before she strolled back in with a cup of black coffee and some pastries. “Okay,” she mumbled, her mouth full of croissant, “I went to your mom's house there was nothing there,” I could barely understand her as she spoke putting her boots up on the coffee table in the den. “You weren’t kidding,” she chuckled to herself. “They tore that place apart,” A wicked grin spread on her face. I felt my heart pang when I remembered the state of the home I had grown up in. Giovanni must have seen it cross my face as he set his cappuccino down and bit out, “The home your friend built being torn to shreds amuses you?” Blake didn’t miss a beat she took another sip of her coffee and with all seriousness explained. “Yes, the thought of Domenico going crazy looking for the
Into the darkness Chapter 57
*12 years ago* Ryan’s POV: It was late and I was getting nowhere on this hit-and-run case. I stared up at my bulletin board my mind numb from the hours I had spent trying to get this guy. The guy was a total creep but he had enough connections it would be hard to get a conviction. I didn’t like leaving this family high and dry though I’d find some dirt soon enough. A knock came at the office door behind me, hurried repetitive knocks, the only ones I ever got. I had tried the quiet life after retirement, but it made my skin itch seeing all the assholes get away with their dirty dealings, so I became a P.I. Sure my old comrades made fun of me, but while they protected freedom I protected the little guy. I walked over to the door slowly and the knocking continued all the way there. I opened up to see a fairly young woman standing there holding papers and her eyes were red. Her fist still raised she sniffled. “Hello my name is Vanessa Zeni,” she began her voice was hard and fierce. I
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Arianna POV: “I heard you were looking for me,” a woman called in our bedroom I turned on the lights looking between Giovanni and the woman. The two in a standoff my head rushing with adrenaline, the sound of a heartbeat pounding like a base in the back of my brain. Then it all went clear she hesitated looking over at me inquisitively. “Vanessa?” My mother's name floated from her lips and I stopped standing straight up. “How do you know my mom?” The woman put her gun away and put up her hands. “I’m Ryan Blake?” she gave her name and Giovanni put the gun down with a thump and turned to the woman with his eyes lit with fire. “We have a front door most people tend to just knock,” He scoffed going over and putting a shirt on. She eyed him with a mischievous grin. “Yeah, and most people haven’t been tailed by FBI agents or had their tax records pulled in the last 48 hours, not to mention the relentless calling,” she turned her attention back toward me. “Nice by the way my friends ha
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Domenico POV: “I don’t care if the cops aren’t on our side anymore get it done!” I shouted slamming the door behind me. The whole pack of fools had begun to question me ever since I released them on this city. I had given them what they wanted let them settle whatever small petty grudges they held with the insignificant ants on the street, and they had the audacity to say we had gone too far. For so many years, I had left them chomping at the bit and now, now that they’ve had their chance they feel the pressure of their actions. Perhaps there was a reason then why I didn’t let them do whatever they wanted. To be fair my risk hadn’t paid off in the way I wanted, my daughter for some reason concerned herself with the lives of those scraps. She wished them all to be fruitful and successful in their own right. Most of them didn’t have the wherewithal for that, not enough ambition is many men’s great folly. I had wreaked havoc upon the city to show her how meaningless it is to care, th
Into the darkness Chapter 54
Giovanni POV: After our one night into the world of normalcy, we were pulled back to our daily duties. Looking for cracks in her father's foundations, and plastering over our own. I had to hand it to her, she was a remarkable strategist explaining where she believed he might go, giving clever and devious answers as to why. She would be heartbroken if I ever told her but I understood why Domenico wanted her to take over. If anybody here knew how he thought it was her, her own mind ticked in the same way, her saving grace was that she had a conscience. We sat at our desks and worked over the problems that could arise, seeing what we could find on her father. It wasn’t the blood she had originally wanted but I think life in prison was still satisfying. The most grueling task of the day came when we called the Detective he would sit there and tell us how he had nothing more than we did, and still hadn’t found that P.I.If I didn’t know any better I’d say he was useless. “I have made so
Into the darkness Chapter 53
Giovanni POV: I hadn’t any idea what just happened, one moment we were discussing plans with the Detective and the next she had gone cold, in a way she’d never done with me. She was rigid and firm, her voice trembled with fear. I wanted to grab her and hold her, ask her what had made her so upset, but the look in her eyes strayed my hand. She went off without another word, it wasn’t my intention to ever see her in that state. We hadn’t told her about Marco simply for his protection, we didn’t know who could be listening in so it was only ever discussed in my home, in my room which was swept for bugs daily. I didn’t dare mention it at the office where anybody could walk inside. I waited in my office unsure of whether to follow her, part of me screamed that I should run after her and apologize even though I didn’t know what I had done wrong. The other part of me stayed put, hoping she would calm down and speak to me rationally. I went over and poured myself a drink as Luca walked in
Into the darkness Chapter 52
Arianna POV: With the detective on our side, he became an everyday occurrence in our lives much to Giovanni's irritation. He was convinced the detective had a thing for me, which I couldn’t see at all. I tried to remind him that I was with him, but all he said was. No man likes another to covet the thing he holds most dear. We had returned to the city a week after that horrible night, I hadn’t told Gio, but I could still hear their screams the glass shattering. It was some atrocious demon repeating itself to me over and over. I tried to push it from my mind and focus on what we were doing but every day I found it clawing at my ears, drawing up the images from that night whenever I closed my eyes. There was only one reason for my father to have made such a reckless move. He was furious I had gotten away from him, and he wanted me to know that those innocents I held over his life, over Guilia’s, they were the ones who would pay the price. You had to hand it to him, he was ever the tac
Into the darkness Chapter 51
Giovanni POV: We got out of the city and headed west, away from the coast. Most of the night, she was staring out of the window, haunted by what she had seen. I don’t regret taking her out of there, away from those horrors, but I do hope it won’t weigh on her. She was too good a soul to come from such a psychopath. I doubt the reality of what he had done even entered his mind. I wouldn’t take her back there for a while, it was too dangerous, not only for her body but her mind. He would no doubt continue to play these mind games until she cracked and came back to him. The only issue with his plan was me. I refused to lose this fight. It was ironic how he had brought Arianna into the fold in an attempt to distract me, but instead, he gave me the greatest motivation I had ever experienced. Every breath was for her, and every choice I made now was to ensure her survival. I made sure that I was updated on the damage done that night, I wanted personal accounts of every single deed. I h
